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Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts
Unlock Your Creative Potential
The Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts is an interdisciplinary academic and creative research facility that's re-envisioning artistic education for the 21st century. Home to the Emerging Media Arts program within the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, students work across new and developing technologies to understand and change how we see the world.
grow into a creative leader.
A BFA in Emerging Media Arts will immerse you in the creative community and intensive academics you need to flourish creatively, preparing you for a career on the cutting-edge of arts and entertainment. Let your curiosity and passion guide you as you gain hands-on, real-world experiences at the intersection of art and technology.
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It’s great to be able to work on personal projects, but also to gain experience through collaborations—working with the orchestra, actors, lighting designer and scenic designer. All those worlds coming together gives me a real glimpse into what I could be doing professionally.”
The Carson Center promotes growth, creativity and collaboration across established and emerging creative and technological practices. In addition to being the home of the Emerging Media Arts major within the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, the Center also houses Edgeworks, a groundbreaking core research facility that gives students access to cutting-edge resources to advance their art.
interdisciplinary studies and research hub
Learn by Doing
Our professional faculty, innovative research programs and vast industry connections offer countless opportunities for Carson Center students to explore and expand their practices out in the world.
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Cutting-edge Research
Through close faculty mentorship, advanced creative spaces and Edgeworks, the Carson Center’s core research facility, Emerging Media Arts students engage in research that reshapes our understanding of storytelling and expression.
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Interdisciplinary Collaborations
From filmmaking, game design, virtual reality and experience design to special effects, sensory media, sonic art and data, our students learn to create and across a continuum, preparing them for a spectrum of successful creative careers.
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Static
Designed by a team of Carson Center students using Unreal Engine, this live-action motion capture performance explores the beginning of human consciousness and uses the Center’s facilities to their fullest technological and creative potential.
An Act of Survival
Blending motion capture, Unreal Engine computing and immersive sound design, technology meets nature in this hypnotic exhibition that dramatizes life’s endurance in the face of darkness.
The Wondrous Metaphysical Kermit T. Frog and the Inhabitants of Baby Land
Motion capture, game design and projection collide in this wildly creative and off-kilter exhibition that prompts giggles and reflection on our technology-filled existence.
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Designed with the future in mind, the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts offers the most advanced technologies in emerging media arts and promotes collaboration between students of all disciplines.
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